Best Italian Butter Cookies Recipes

GINA'S ITALIAN BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Combine cake flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.
• Combine butter, sugar, and shortening in a large bowl; cream with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Mix in almond paste until thoroughly combined. Add eggs, vanilla extract, lemon juice, and almond extract. Reduce the mixing speed to low and slowly add dry ingredients. Scrape down the bowl once all dry ingredients are added, then mix on medium speed until evenly combined, about 30 seconds.
• Fit a large pastry bag with an 864 or 4S tip and fill bag with batter. Pipe evenly sized cookies onto an ungreased cookie sheet 1 1/2 to 2 inches apart, giving cookies space to puff slightly during baking.
• Bake in the preheated oven, in batches if necessary, until bottom edges are slightly browned, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

ITALIAN BUTTER COOKIES 1952

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large mixer bowl, cream lightly the butter and sugar until really fluffy and pale, about three minutes.
• Add the egg and vanilla and mix until combined.
• At low speed add the combined dry ingredients and mix until just blended.
• Do not overmix.
• Place into a pastry bag fitted with a star tip, pipe onto prepared parchment lined cookie sheets, spacing two inches apart.
• If dough is too thick to pipe, pour in a few tablespoons of milk.
• If you make wreath or stars, you can add a cherry as decoration now before baking.
• Or you could just roll into small bals and flatten with a fork if desired.
• Bake for 10 to 14 minutes just until the bottoms and edges begin to turn golden brown.
• Remove from pans by sliding thw whole piece of parchment onto a large wire rack, and cool completely.
• Dip fingers or one side of each into melted chocolate and sprinkles if desired.
• Sandwich with raspberry jam also if desired, dip in melted white chocolate and crushed almonds.
• Leave plain also.
• Store in an airtight container.

ITALIAN BAKERY BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). 2. Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs, vanilla .
• 2. Add dry ingredients and mix well. Place dough in a pastry bag fitted with a number 4-S tip (the S means 'star'), and pipe out in 2 inch bars on greased baking pan. (Can also be piped into rosettes or other shapes)
• 3. Bake for about 5 to 7 minutes, until very lightly browned on bottom! Put baked cookies together with jam, frosting or dip half cookie in melted chocolate and dip in sprinkles.

ITALIAN BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Mix all items together until completely creamed and incorporated together.
• 2. Pipe through a star tip in a swirling motion or through a cookie press.
• 3. Bake at a preheated 350'F oven for about 10 minutes until lightly golden. Before baking top with sprinkles, maraschino cherries, mini chocolate chips or leave plain. They are also great dipped in melted dark or semi sweet chocolate or with pumped chocolate ganache on the top when cookies are cooled. Enjoy!

ITALIAN BUTTER BALL COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat 350 degrees. Mix all ingrdients together.Shape into 1 inch balls. Bake 12-15 mins. Bottoms of cookies should be a light brown not dark.While warm roll cookies in a bowl of confectioner sugar twice. Cool on rack. Enjoy!!!!!

ITALIAN BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar 5 minutes at medium speed with electric mixer.
• Add egg yolks and vanilla. Mix till blended.
• Add flour and mix on low speed.
• Pipe dough with bag onto ungreased baking sheet into rosettes with #7 star tube.
• Bake at 400 degrees F for 7-10 minutes.

ITALIAN BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Whip butter with mixer.
• Continue mixing at low speed and add 1 cup powdered sugar, walnuts, then the flour, a few tablespoons at a time.
• Add vanilla.
• Drop cookie batter, by teaspoonfull quantities, on ungreased cookie sheet.
• The dough is fairly stiff so just roll the batter in little balls and then press down with a glass to shape.
• Bake 15-20 minutes at 350°.
• Remove from pan; sprinkle with a little powdered sugar.

MONTILLIO'S ITALIAN BUTTER COOKIES RECIPE - (4.3/5)

Steps:

• 350' oven In an electric mixer cream the butter and sugar until really fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix well. (if you want colored cookies add apporx. 6 drops of food coloring now) With mixer on low speed add sifted flour, baking powder and salt (yup - you really HAVE to sift for this recipe or else you will get clumping!) STOP mixing once the ingredients are just blended. OVER MIXING will make the dough too stiff. Using a pastry bag with a large tip (or a cookie press)place cookies onto parchment paper lined cookie sheet 2 inches apart. If desired place a cherry half in the center of each cookie before baking. Bake 10-15 minutes or until edges begin to brown. Usign a spatula lift cookies onto cooling racks. Cool completely then store in air tight container. **also try using lemon, peppermint or almond instead of vanilla